#the unique ones go through a lot

[jayktoralldaylong]

Four ways to become an Avatar:

1. Being chosen by an already existing Avatar: This is how majority of Avatars become Avatars, even Jon went down this path (that's right Mr. Sims, you're not special 😂 - I'm sure he's relieved about that).

2. Becoming an Avatar without connections - This one is harder an often involves a Leitner book. Often involves a search for power. Eventually these Avatars will get connections or meet another Avatar to help them along or they'll die fast.

3. Getting chosen by the Entity - Very very rare. Almost never happens. Entities are worse at communication than your toxic Ex.

4. Getting born FOR an Entity - The rarest one. You would think getting born the personified version of an Entity would come with lots of benefits (and it often does because these people are often more powerful than any other Avatar - Agnes and Peter), yet for some reason I think these guys are worst Avatars in general. 😭💀 It's not like they're bad at their job, they are very good at burning and making people lonely, but that's also the only thing they know how to do. 😭😭 Outside of their field they are lost (Agnes even had an identity crisis when she couldn't burn things anymore). I don't know how to explain it but they're really pathetic at manipulation as well. 😭🤣💔 They also seem to have an identity crisis when they get into complicated situationships.

TMA spoilers in the tags.

#kudos to the magnus archives for making the extra special avatars the most awkward ones #usually the unique ones are the main characters but now we get to see exactly why the main character can't be part of the unique ones #the unique ones go through a lot #also #I'm starting to think the vast hand picks its Avatars #cause how did Simon just fall into a painting 💀 #michael the distortion #fits into the chosen by another avatar #even if the avatar in question was his mentor who was barely an avatar cause she was into homicide and carnage #why didn't the hunt just adopt Gertrude #tma avatars #tma #tma entities #the magnus archive #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #peter lukas #agnes montague #mike crew #michael crew #simon fairchild

[sysig]

For the last day of requestober, can you please draw something spooky/scary with Negative RGB? With all the cool lighting stuff you've been doing recently, I think it could be very dramatic, and I'd love to see him in your style!

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#My art #Requestober #The Property of Hate #TPoH #Negative #Flashing gif #I wanted to go out with a bang :) #I had a lot of fun with the textures on this one haha ♪ #I have actually drawn Negative before but I've only posted him once as a vent :0 #He didn't make it over to my taglist 'cause TPoH was the Thing while I was making that sideblog lol - a few things fell through the cracks #Plus I mean vent is just like that sometimes :P #But! He is not vent here! He is just funsies! :D #And those textures were definitely funsies >:3c It was very cool to chip away at them and let them interplay and overlay hehe #I did really want the lighting to be the highlight - no pun intended - since you mentioned it specifically lol #Backlighting again! >:3c I will continue to do it until it stops looking cool! Haha ♪ #The rest is just Negative being spooky all on his lonesome haha he's just like that! #Doing his screen glow was very rewarding ahhh ♥ I've always really loved that hard/soft glow look #I'm still figuring it out but I'm quite pleased with how this one turned out! :D #Also would you like a secret/hint on textures? Hehehe - those static frames? :3c #They're just zoomed-in carpet swatches on the Binary layer type - turn them up and down and rotate to make them unique! #Anyhow hehe ♪ Happy Halloween! :D Happy spooky season! Thank you all for a fun month!! <3 <3

[edettethegreat]

10/10 manga for pulling a “we’ll defeat you with the power of friendship!!” “That’s… incredibly ignorant of you. I’m significantly more powerful, whether or not you have friends won’t impact this fight”

#this IS the best manga I stand by that forever #I know I vaguepost about it every few months but it just. keeps getting better #I am so emotionally invested in this #[spoiler]’s really out here being like “you fools. I am all powerful. Your group of like 8 friends cannot harm me” #He is genuinely such an interesting and compelling character #Such a unique character #honestly I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character like him in any media #Admittedly he’s not my favorite character. Not even my favorite in this manga. #But he’s just so strikingly unique #Just. The whole character progression of bullied outcast with a heart of gold —>dead(?)—> jk not really—>minor antagonist—> main antagonist #And you absolutely never see it coming #Because when he’s reintroduced as a minor antagonist you’re like “oh that’s interesting. That’s an interesting little twist” #And then as the story progresses and things become more and more intense #And suddenly HE’S the one who’s hunting the protagonists HE’S the one who’s actively trying to kill them #For those unfamiliar with this I feel like it’s important to clarify there was never some betrayal twist #As in he was genuinely a really good person at the start #And it’s a very very gradual shift #Because even when he’s reintroduced as an antagonist it’s all very understandable on his end #He’s a good guy he’s been through a lot but is making the best of his circumstances #Until he isn’t until things go too far #Just auuughh it;s so good

[mothheart]

Zelda struggled so hard to get her sealing/light powers to awaken in botw and only could do it when she saw Link about to die for her and made sure he was taken to the shrine of resurrection before she made the journey to the lost woods alone to entrust the master sword to the deku tree so it was ready for link when the time came. Making the journey back to hyrule castle and facing Ganon alone knowing she would be stuck there for so long while Link came back from the brink

And in totk she struggled to master her time power to go back to her time and resorted to desperate measures to ensure Link would get the master sword in the future and save everyone despite knowing she would lose herself in the process

I don't have anything special to say I just can't stop thinking about this

#its interesting. it makes me wonder if this is just going to be a unique struggle for botw/totk zelda or if as time goes on that #her reincarnations will continue to lose their connection to the goddess/their ability to harness their sacred power #can you imagine. idk how likely it is. just something that ive been thinking about #anyway. she also just feels a lot more like a person to me. idk. more relatable. you know #she went through so much #sorta unrelated but her and link being free of the shackles of expectations put on them at such a young age and #still choosing to travel with one another #link choosing to protect zelda and try to find her and save her not because he has to but because he wants to #mineru calling him her chosen protector and its true. she overcame the resentment towards him in botw yes but also #they finally had a chance to just live a normal life. more or less. for at least a few years. to actually just. see one another as people #idk what im getting at. its just so. #[muffled sobbing] #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #theyre so special to me forever and ever. #miles rambles

[yours-the-author]

Hello. I don't mean this in a bad way but I saw in your post with the idea for right hand man and reginald you were struggling to make a baseball bat so I will give you the very useful guide. :)

Oh, wow! For some reason, I never thought of making the actual bat part first and then doing the handle; I always approached it as doing the entire thing as a single shape, instead of making it into separate shapes. I think I might try this out next time I need to have RHM wield his weapon. Thanks!

#answering asks #I've never answered an ask before #so I guess that's the tag I'll use #unless I find something better #it's late and I can't think of anything cool and unique for that sort of thing #not that I imagine I'll be getting a lot of asks very often #anyway #congrats on being my first ask! #your prize is #uh #getting an answer I guess? #*jumps off a microwave and phases through the floor to become one with the Backrooms #jk unless #art advice #since that's technically what this ask is all about #copperright #technically #it's mentioned anyway #okay enough tags I need to go to BED

[hella1975]

im being so serious besties i am not cut out for academia

#like yes i know ive had a very uniquely shit experience in doing a degree i actively not only hate but also am BAD AT #but also i just. cannot hack it #'but hella you go mental and pessimistic every single exam period' i know that but. im right also #like the other day i said to my mum how much ive just been enjoying my job recently #and how huge a deal that is bc i HATE my hometown and ive never ever considered my time here as possibly being good #and my 20s will hopefully be a lot of travelling but in between that to save easier im gonna live at home #so i dont have to worry about rent so alas that means when im saving up for my next trip I WILL BE IN MY HOMETOWN #and as excited as i am for my twenties that is one huge downside to me but i was really cheerfully saying to my mum #that literally for the first time ever ive considered it might not be too bad bc lately i have just enjoyed my job #like i enjoy the people and the work and the lifestyle of it and while it's never gonna be ideal as a means to an end it's actually good #and instead of focussing on that she went OFF on one about how she wants me to stay in education and keep getting qualifications #and she was like 'you could do an english degree you've always wanted to do english or how about open university-' #and i was just sat there blinking at her like girl.... no #like i could FEEL myself shutting down like the terror of having to return to this environment when ive got my sight so set #on that 'one more year and im done one more year and im done' mindset like that has been the only thing getting my through #is that im halfway through the course now so im closer to the other end than i am the beginning and if i can just push through #ill be free from it for the rest of my life. so the thought of immediately returning to academia even for a subject i adore? i felt ILL #and my mum apologised the next day without me even having to say anything bc she realised she kinda bulldozed me there #but i just know whether it's the adhd or ive actually been traumatised by this econ degree #(<- and im being serious there like ik 'traumatised' is a big loaded word but idk what else to use #and this degree has done so so much damage to me like it has convinced me that i am fundamentally a stupid person #to the point i refuse to add up bills when with friends or do answer any sort of intellectual question even if i KNOW i know the answer #bc ive just gone so so long of being bad at the only subject im studying like just SURROUNDED by it and being bad at it relentlessly #and i dont think people realise how damaging it is to very simply just... feel stupid all the time. but oh my god i used to be so confident #and bright and now i wont even do basic addition in front of people) #i really truly dont think i can do this again in any capacity. like the constant exams and studying and assignments #i just cant do it. maybe i just need a year or two away from it after this degree but my goddddd rn i cant see it #yes it's exam time for me can u tell. it always makes me existential and on the verge of vomiting at any given moment #i hate it here i hate it here i hate it here i dont care about iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies shut the fuck up #hella goes to uni

[thehallstara]

i gotta say. it is getting so damn hard as a disabled trans+queer jew with a shitty immune system to not feel completely overwhelmed w/ sadness and dread at every moment i'm sure a lot of yall feel the same but like man. idk how any of us are dealing with it at this point

#s.txt #it's just so... it feels like every part of who i am is under attack rn yk? and obv this is not a unique experience by any means #but everywhere i turn there's just such blatent antisemitism and dogwhistles and eugenics wherever i turn and i feel like i'm losing my min #and i'm missing pride again bc i super can't risk covid again and no one fucking gets it besides nat #but like!!! g-d it's so hard!!! #and i've had two different friends reach out to me this week being like i miss you and i'm like!! i miss you too but you don't really mask– #anymore and i don't do unmasked indoor stuff and every outing requires so many checks and balances for me to do and it's just hard #not to mention the guilt i have for like. not being there when things are under attack! it feels like i've abandoned my family #but like. in a lot of ways i've been abandoned first bc things are just not safe for me to participate in yk?? #this is the longest rant i'm so sorry g-d #i'm going through it and i just really need something good to happen for me like PLEASE #i'll take a single thing skjdhks #chronic illness stuff

[if-th3n-else]

I'm obsessed with Propose and it's becoming a problem 😔

#dreamcatcher #mainly because the chorus remind me of another song i love but i just can't know which one #and i won't go through all of my playlists to find it #so i keep listening to it till i find the answer lmao #but also because Siyeon #like I'm obsessed with this woman's voice #she totally devoured the song #that one part gave me chills #it looks like she's living the lyrics when she sings #idk how to explain #and i think what I prefer about her is her imperfections #like it's the same thing about lot of singers i love #i love when you can hear the break i' their voice #it makes me feel an emotion i can't explain #like seriously that's why i love Chester's voice so much #i mean i love when metal singers end their note in that broken fry y'know #and Siyeon has the advantage to be unique in the kpop industry with this #she's not a pop singer #and they make songs that almost always fit all the members voice somehoy #but when it's rock she just take everything and leave nothing #but this song... wow #very special note for Dami who really have that rock thing in her two and they should let her howl more often #one day dami or Siyeon is gonna do a real fry scream and then it's over for me sjdjsjdbsbs #anyway maybe one day I'll know what this song reminds me of and I'll let you know

[sleepdepravity]

I recently rewatched one piece movie 6 again, and it always really strikes me how much mamoru hosoda’s fingerprints are all over it, it really does make that movie stand out so much. Like. I always remember movie 6, not necessarily just because of the fucking flower, but because the direction feels so unique to him. I do remember the other movies, but only in vague summaries, like the animal island one, or the one that was kinda about zoro (and he sprains sanji’s leg), or the one with that, shell? Spire castle??? (where Sanji gets crucified and also straight up kicks his feet into spikes), and the first one that was just about treasure (Sanji wasn’t in it), and the one about a race??? (I don’t remember what Sanji did in that) but movie 6 is just like, oh yeah, the horror, the flower, the themes, the movie characters, the design, the fish, specific scenes…

I haven’t watched other Hosoda movies in suuuuuch a long time so I might be totally off the mark here, but if you watch movie 6 and compare the directing of the other one piece movies, I think you really highlight a lot of his style. He likes focusing the camera on the person listening instead of the person talking, or just on one of the characters throughout the conversation instead of both. He likes gilligan cuts. He likes silence. It feels like there’s a certain type of beat he likes when it comes to conversations, notably those long beats of silence that occasionally come up, but also a lot of snappy back and forths, with no break between lines, during quite long dialogues even. It’s just. *clenches fist* pretty neat.

#malky talks about one piece #there’s not a lot of panning shots #if I remember correctly #there’s of course the panning shot of that crew conglomerate at the end #there’s the POV camera of nami as they’re all going through the forest in the beginning #but not much else #the sequence of dj gappa chasing down sanji nami and zoro as well is unique #in how it portrays different events of different times as if it was one scene #and I think there’s a significant chunk of the movie where the camera doesn’t focus on a characters face when they talk #instead focusing on the back of their head or at scenery #one piece

[amplexadversary]

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#dot post #I am still chewing on the walls because my 2 favorite gundams are like the most neglected by fan and franchise alike #G Gundam has some really neat moments in older games that could be used to build a unique relationship to it and other gundams in crossover #but it's never used. SRW T had me so spoiled. #and Turn A is barely seen at all. I get it's hard to write but I feel like I need to see it in the same space as G and Unicorn #because Unicorn makes it a lot easier to write in with the time travel thing and it synergizes so well with G #also one of the SRW games that never got translated has a specific scene if you save the life of a particular character #I need it and I can't have it I feel like a cat trying to get into a cupboard about it #a different SRW game that isn't translated also takes advantage of Domon going into more of a mentor role but for Kamille #and holy shit I like Kamille and they aren't likely to re-explore that either. #(also I kind of want to see Domon butt heads with Quattro just a little) #and then there's another game with a one-off interaction with Ple and damn it I want to see more of that #but it's almost always a one-off moment. T *had* a more in-depth look at that part of his character #but sadly that also meant having to be subjected to Van #ignore morg #I'm rambling by which I mean I'm growling through a mouth full of drywall

[notjanine]

the post-grad unemployment blues have not been helping my annual summer depression, so my brain has been... not great. my lease is up in just a few days, but i can't move into a new apartment until i know where i'll be working. i'm having to put all my shit in storage until i can find something. it's been rough.* but i spent a few days at Books' this week and even though everything sucks, they did a lovely job cheering me up. when i got to theirs, they surprised me with a silly and refreshing beverage i'd previously mentioned in passing that i wanted to try** and this book that they picked up from work.*** then they took me to their campus so we could play board games on the massive group study tables.**** we got dinner at my favorite ethiopian place in the city. we cozied up in bed and double featured they cloned tyrone and the lighthouse (which they hadn't seen before). i finally got to an alamo drafthouse weird wednesday! we saw let the corpses tan,***** after a delightfully nasty late night diner breakfast. we played mario kart and i lost, terribly, but still had fun.

i also had an interview yesterday, for a job that sounds like a great fit for me.****** all of my interviews so far have been strange, for one reason or another, but this one may have been the strangest- because halfway through, the interviewer started pitching me a different position that sounds AMAZING.******* i'd be happy with either. i really hope this works out. i should be having a second interview next week.

i'm back at my apartment now and i have to be out by monday afternoon. i'm glad to be leaving this place, even though things are still so up in the air. and even though i haven't been my best lately, i'm glad to know that i am still loved.

#*i am about to be lower case h homeless but i am very lucky that i have enough support to make it through this without tremendous difficulty #however i might have to go back home which... i do not feel ready for. and i don't want to be away from Books for too long #**i'm in t*xas so there are hardcore topo chico heads and i had never had it before #i didn't care until a friend was talking about how much she hated it bc it was like drinking tv static #***i had already packed my books and only left one fiction book unpacked to read while i'm going thru this and this one is verrrry differen #which is good i need variety! #****everdell is like Our Game and the wee tables in my apt are only just big enough to play on (no room in Books' tiny studio to play it) #and Books also has the spirecrest expansion- but we hadn't gotten to play bc we didn't have the space! #it was so fun to actually do such a big game (it took maybe two hours and the entire six foot table lmao) #(i won but it was close! which usually happens when we play games we're well-matched but not too competitive so it's always a fun challenge #***** LOVED it #******similar to but more intense and challenging than my fav internship rotation. at a cool and pretty unique hospital in a great location #*******full time w benefits and travel. it sounds... SO good for my adhd. lots of novelty and adapting to new situations!

[hwiyoungies]

i was thinking about this the other day, about how so many people are are constantly trying to prove how unique they are or in a constant battle to be as unique and unrelatable in a way as possible, and how grateful i am that my experiencess are actually not unique at all because how lonely would that be, how lonely would it be to be the only one to feel a certain way, to see things a certain way, to not be able to relate to anyone because i'm so busy trying to be different to prove a point to no one. idk i'm very grateful that not being unique allows me to create a community and lessen the burden that life can be sometimes. and i mean unique in a way of experiences because every single human is unique in their own way, but our shared experiences and traits is what makes us even better

#idk this has been on my mind for a while #because i keep seeing people everyone online just trying so hard to be unique #or the typical comments ''oh so my experiences are not unique at all'' in a bad way in a video or something #like no why would you want that #why would you want to be the only one that experiences something #to feel superior? better? and for what #to jut be lonely at the end because no one can get you? #idk it's nice knowing that there's at least one person out there that might be going through the same thing as i am #makes it a lot less lonely tbh #b.txt

[rowanhoney]

Ok I also explored where my bisa and my tío and my cousins lived. I’ve never looked at a map or had their addresses but I do have a good sense of direction and a freaky memory for layouts and I think I found everyone’s homes and you can bet I’ve been absolutely weeping about every single one

#tío Juan turned his irrigation pool into a swimming pool. and you can tell cos it’s higher up and a funny shape #and he had a small amount of land for his goats and chickens etc #and a bigggg pine tree #and the garage was under the balcony #anyway I found that. I just clicked the local castle and searched the surroundings for land that matched #it’s definitely 100% his home #and my cousin lived very very close I remember the road to it doesn’t seem like a real road and you have to go through a tiny underpass #but he renovated a very old water mill. with no water. and it also has a lot of land #Also for his goats and pigs and dogs and cats #and cos it’s a unique building I found it easily #my other cousin was harder to find. I didn’t go there as often. they came to us more or met us at another house #but I remember it was higher up and at the end of a path #and there was a gate and some land to the left #I THINK I found it. almost everything matches up but the outside of the building looks a little different hmmmm #also I found my bisa’s flat. but it’s been the longest since we were there #cos she sold it and moved in with us when she got old #and all those flats near the beach look the same #but this one seems to have a hollow between buildings and there’s a square a little further up and I’m pretty sure that’s it #anyway I’m. im feeling better #being with my Spanish family is the only time I’ve ever ever felt loved #THEYRE all saved to my favourites now #Juan died a long while ago but my cousin Pablo lives there now #and he works the land and has a produce business #I need to go back I really do #Also . my snooping skills are incredible to figure this all out. obviously #same with finding my abuelas village #it’s so small it’s unmarked i just had to keep looking for groups of buildings until I found the right one #then I checked with her and I was right #my old town ik as well as where I live now so that was fine

[raspberryjellybrains]

I've been thinking a lot lately about Delirium and the way she speaks. She talks around a concept, never hitting it head on but glancing off through a series of metaphors and related concepts that explain things far better than wording them straight might. It's very relatable, and I think that's why I like her; that's how I think.

To me, the world isn't composed of precisely defined concepts but a series of interconnected existences which can all, ultimately, be related to each other. I also experience things in the incredibly specific manner Delirium seems to. I have sensitivities largely untethered from aversions, meaning that while I don't often find things deeply unpleasant or intolerable, I still experience them with an unusual specificity which often defies concise explanation. The best way I can convey certain feelings or experiences is through other feelings, experiences, and concepts to weave together a series of approximations that through their similar and dissimilar traits narrow down to what I'm trying to describe. Delirium does this too, and it's treated as a part of her that's no better or worse than any other. There are those that don't understand and those that do, and those that at least try to are awarded for their efforts because finally and most importantly, she genuinely has something to say. Her speech patterns are deceptively rambling because she takes a long time to say what she means to say, while simultaneously saying exactly it.

Delirium is neurodivergent coded in such a cathartic way because of this. I feel her frustration and joy because I know what it's like to be the person trying to explain something that has no words to assign, asking all of the time if there's a word for what she's feeling as a rhetorical and genuine question so that she can explain something without explaining it and call into question why we feel everything must be precisely laid in the place of as few words as possible. She is incredibly intelligent, but loses track of all of what's happening in a far more obvious way than most because there's just so much to keep track of, which is also very relatable as a neurodivergent person. Without putting labels on the experience, she perfectly captures it. I just... I like Delirium quite a lot, and think she'd be very good at post-modern literature.

#i hope to god this comprehensible #im trying so hard to get this shit in a line exactly becaude of why i like her #theres jusy SO MUCH to say its very hard to keep it straight and many more things to focus on beyond it #i love that delirium is treated by the narrative as an intelligent and wise being that just conveys that in an unconventional way #shes like my mirror metaphor. no mirror can light upon the minutae without shattering and no shattered mirror can see the bigger picture. #shes shattered but knows from when she was whole what the full picture looks like but she gets lost in all of the fragments #which gives her an incredibly unique and valuable perspective #at a surface level it seems as if she's an offensive depiction of mental illness but once you go deeper you realize shes not for the very- #reason she at first seemed to be. she embodies what is looked down upon but its told through side comments and events that theres more to- #her than the seeming irrationality. #she picks up and puts things down as she remembers them but that doesnt mean any one thing is any less valuable than any other #the ephemeral quality of her attentions dont diminish their value. #i have a lot of thoughts about her i just. am very fond. #and the way she and dream truly demonstrate the dichotomy of mental illness and neurodivergence makes me froth at the mouth. #he knows what shes saying most of the time and knows where shes at whether he admits it to himself or not because shes just externalizing- #what exists solely internally for him. hes better at masking and that is their difference which makes Such a statement oh my god when you- #think about how each are treated and understood. #it took me like. two weeks to organize these thoughts btw. they float in little brain clouds <3 #i need to watch everything everywhere all at once #anyway #delirium of the endless #the sandman meta #the sandman #raspberry rambles

[magentagalaxies]

was thinking about another observation i want to put into my hypothetical mouth congress video essay whenever i get around to actually making it and i had to take a step back like "jess you already have so much you want to cover how long is this video essay going to be"

and then i remembered that interview where paul bellini said the original cut of the mouth congress documentary was over three hours and "nobody wants to watch that, even those of us in the band couldn't watch it!" (side note i would watch that. release the bellini cut lmao)

anyway idk exactly how long this imaginary video essay is going to be but if it's even one minute over the length of the mouth congress documentary (which i believe is an hour and sixteen minutes?) i'm putting that interview clip as the opening bc of the irony

#''nobody wants to watch someone talking about mouth congress for three hours'' it's me i want to watch myself talk about them for 3 hours #anyway idk when i'll get around to making the video essay but it's actually part of a series of video essays i plan to make #i want to go through kids in the hall season-by-season and do an analysis of the way the show evolved and what makes their humor so unique #then do a top 10 sketches of each season as a chance to talk more at length about specific sketches/characters i like #kind of similar in format to TheRealJims's simpsons video essays (which are some of my favorites go check them out) #but for mine i'd also want to try and interview other people about their favorite kith things #like definitely any other fans who want to be part of it (@ kith mutuals here especially) #but also like who knows maybe tavie will want to be interviewed or maybe i can get paul to share some behind the scenes stuff #but in addition to going season-by-season i also want to do a few extra videos #like a retrospective of brain candy/death comes to town (they're paired together bc a lot of my takes come in the weird pairing of the two) #a whole video exploring the expanded buddy cole universe (this one will need a ton of extra research but basically anything outside kith) #and of course a video essay on mouth congress #i also want to do a casual video where i try and see just how many kith characters canonically exist in the same universe #bc they have a habit of putting little callbacks into their sketches that reference other characters #so i wanna make a web of everyone who could hypothetically run into each other

[ratskool]

hopefully this isn’t a hot take but I hope gen z realizes that the punk, goth, industrial etc etc subcultures all kinda diy’d their stuff by way of investing in real vintage, hand me downs, sewing, refurbishing and modding their clothing. Their makeup wasn’t perfect, their hair was not perfect, nothing was perfect. Like I remember watching some Irish news segment about goths in Dublin and these teens and young adults were borrowing and taking clothes from their parents and grandparents and going out of their way to come up with their own style instead how now everyone is buying from shein or some shit and nothing is unique in fashion because everyone is obsessed with some niche garbage “aesthetic” that lasts for a max 5 months

basically what I’m saying is: you don’t need an endless closet of clothes, you don’t need to keep up with every stupid trend or follow some uniform outfit for whatever subculture you’re a part of. Real quality clothing that has lasted an excess of 30 years and still is in good condition, or can be taken in to fit you properly (which is something you can do!!) is worth a million times more than whatever garbage you’re buying from a fast fashion demon. Trade clothes with your friends! Go to clothing swaps! Dye your jeans another color! Learn how to sew! Steal shit from your parents and siblings!(they won’t miss it) literally if you’re under the age of 20 you will be way cooler than an alt influencer on tiktok

#I have been diy’ing a lot and going through my parents closet since there’s a lot of things they don’t wear anymore #So far I’ve taken 2 coats from my mom 1 trench coat and 5 shirts from my brother #1 belt from my dad that I need to figure out how to get it to fit properly #I’m still wearing clothes I had in high school #Oh I also got like 3-4 pieces of clothing from my sister in law one of which was a denim jacket that I dyed black recently #I keep being told ‘your style is so unique!!’ Yeah because I don’t exactly follow the latest trends #Sure I go through phases but my closet is flexible #And if there’s something I like but can’t afford to get I’ll emulate it as best I can